IOF XXXII Ordinary General Assembly took place on Monday at the WOC 2024 event centre in Pollock Halls in Edinburgh. Delegations from 39 member federations were present – either on site or through the hybrid meeting solution online. Here all the reports and proposals put foreward in the agenda (find it here) were reviewed and put to a vote. The complete minutes from the General Assembly will be available at a later time. Then it was time for the IOF Council elections. Here, Tom Hollowell (USA) was the only candidate for the seat as President and he was unanimously elected. Hollowell has been ..read more

Riccardo Rancan (SUI) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) claimed the World Championship titles in Knock-Out Sprint Tuesday afternoon. Central Edinburgh welcomed the 72 athletes back from the qualification in the morning with heavy showers for the quarter finals before it eventually stopped raining for the semi finals later in the afternoon. Once again the centre of the Scottish capital offered courses with many complex route choices in the narrow passages, stairways and detailed courtyards. All courses throughout the afternoon were without forkings and course choice and created some thrilling races ..read more

The last day of World Orienteering Championships 2024 started Tuesday morning in western Edinburgh, where the Knock-Out Sprint Qualification took place. Located in a relatively flat residential area, qualification courses between 2,4 – 2,8 kilometers containing many short legs with constant route choice challenges awaited the athletes. All of them trying to make in into top 12 in their respective heats to gain a place in the quarter finals in the afternoon. 20 nations ended up qualifying – among them Japan (Kaho Kondo) and China (Longyuan Lin). Inka Nurminen (FIN), Victoria Mag (HUN) and Simon ..read more

The XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly is held in a hybrid format on 15 July 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 11:00 to 15:00 local time (BST). You will be able to follow the stream from the GA in IOF LIVE. Find the agenda and more information about the XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly here.   ..read more

Switzerland won an exciting sprint relay at World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh on Sunday afternoon after a close battle with Sweden, who ended up disqualified. Instead, it was Finland who got the silver medals with Norway taking the bronze. Today’s sprint relay was run on the campus of Heriot-Watt University in the western part of the Scottish capital. The arena was spectacularly located inside an indoor football field, which set a great setting for the competition. 34 teams stood ready at the starting line and were sent out into the relatively flat campus area, which offered many r ..read more

The first gold medals of World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh went to Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Martin Regborn (SWE) after the Sprint final on Friday afternoon. The glorious sunny weather from the morning’s qualification had continued and combined with today’s arena in the central park, Princess Street Gardens, created a perfect setting for today’s race. After a scenic start in the courtyard of the Old College the athletes were thrown into a series of short, tricky legs in the old city centre, before longer, and more route choice oriented legs took over on both courses. And from th ..read more

The World Orienteering Championships 2024 were off to a great start Friday morning, where the Sprint Qualification was held in the Leith district in northern Edinburgh. An assymetric street plan and artificial barriers created numerous challenges for the approx. 200 athletes trying their hand at getting into top 15 in their heat to qualify for the finals Friday afternoon. And after some cloudy days in the Scottish capital, the sun was shining at 09.00, when the first men started their qualification race. Less than two hours later it was clear that athletes from 25 of the participating 45 natio ..read more

The most prestigious international competition within orienteering kicks off Friday morning in Edinburgh, when the World Orienteering Championships 2024 begin. And there are excellent opportunities to follow the three sprint competitions Friday, Sunday and Tuesday up close, regardless of whether you are present at the arenas in the Scottish capital or follow from home. In EdinburghIf you’re heading to Edinburgh, the local organizers have made a great guide for spectators, which you can find here. Sweden, Finland, Norway, Czechia, AustriaThe national television stations in Sweden (SVT), Norway ..read more

25 young orienteering leaders from around the world took were earlier this year selected to take part in the IOF Young Leaders Academy (YLA) 2024 in Italy in the beginning of July. YLA was organised for the first time in 2023, and its purpose is to support their talent and their competencies on key topics such as event organising, coaching and mapping. The academy is also about exchanging experiences and making new friends within the global orienteering community. The academy is organised by the IOF Global Development Commission in cooperation and supported by the organisers of 5 Days Italy. T ..read more

The highlight of the year in the international orienteering calendar begins on Friday morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, when the 40th World Orienteering Championships get underway. It is a sprint-only World Championships, which await the athletes with three medal races: Sprint, Sprint Relay and Knock-Out Sprint in that order. As many as 45 nations are participating and more than 250 athletes will start in the Scottish capital. Edinburgh offers a very varied terrain for the sprint races, which includes both residential areas, parkland and orienteering in the city center with significant variation ..read more